Our weekly two hour show on SIRIUS/XMU, channel 35, can be heard twice every Friday – Noon EST with an encore broadcast at Midnight EST.

Download Sidecar: Transmission 12 —> HERE

SIRIUS 294: Jean Michel Bernard – Générique Stephane ++ X – The Once Over Twice ++ Johnny Thunders & The Heartbreakers – Born To Lose ++ Ramones – Today Your Love, Tomorrow The World ++ Sic Alps – L Mansion ++ Zig Zags – Wastin’ My Time ++ Fresh & Onlys – Who Needs A Man ++ Rob Jo Star Band – I Call On One’s Muse ++ The Art Museums – Sculpture Gardens ++ White Fence – And By Always ++ Syd Barrett – Baby Lemonade ++ The Gories – There But For The Grace Of God ++ The Strange Boys – I Should Have Shot Paul ++ Thee Headcoatees – Meet Jacqueline ++ The Sonics – Psycho  ++ Untouchables – Crawlin’ (The Crawl) ++ Black Lips – Navajo ++ Tav Falco’s Panther Burns – Snake Drive ++ Thee Oh Sees – The Sun Goes All Around ++ King Khan – It’s A Lie ++ David Bowie – Boys Keep Swinging ++ Le Bainc Didonc – 4 Cheveux Dans Le Vent ++ The Eyes – My Degeneration ++ The Modern Lovers – She Cracked  ++ The Seeds – Can’t Seem To Make You Mine ++ The Gibson Bros. – Bo Diddley Pulled A Boner ++ Richard Swift – The Bully ++ Richard Swift – Drakula (Hey Man!) ++ Lou Reed – She’s My Best Friend ++ John Lennon & Yoko Ono – New York City ++ Alex Chilton – Don’t Worry Baby (Fragment) ++ Big Star – September Girls (Original Mix) ++ Bedlam’s Offspring – I’ll Be There ++ The Emperors – I Want My Woman ++ The Chocolate Watchband – It’s All Over Now Baby Blue ++ The Blue Rondos – Baby I Go For You ++ The Graham Bond Organisation – Early In The Morning ++ Bo Diddley – Bo Diddley ++ Cat – Do The Watussi ++ Vichan Maneechot – Dance, Dance, Dance ++ The Shangri-Las – How Pretty Can You Get (Radio Spot) ++ Fleur De Lys – Circles ++ Michelle’s Menagerie – Stay Away++ The Worlocks – I Love You ++ Blue Condition – Coming Home ++ Lantern – Bleed Me Dry

*You can listen, for free, online with the SIRIUS three day trial — just submit an email address and they will send you a password.
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Astral blues. More freeform interstitial airwave debris transmitting somewhere off the coast of Los Angeles. Haunted radio wave detritus. This is transmission twelve.

Direct download, below. Subscribe to future transmissions via iTunes and/or through the RSS, here. The first eleven transmissions can be found and downloaded, here.

MP3: Sidecar: Transmission / 12

Intro
Bedlam’s Offspring – I’ll Be There
The Emperors – I Want My Woman
The Chocolate Watchband – It’s All Over Now Baby Blue
The Blue Rondos – Baby I Go For You
The Graham Bond Organisation – Early In The Morning
Bo Diddley – Bo Diddley
Cat – Do The Watussi
Vichan Maneechot – Dance, Dance, Dance
The Shangri-Las – How Pretty Can You Get (Radio Spot)
Fleur De Lys – Circles
Michelle’s Menagerie – Stay Away
The Worlocks – I Love You
Blue Condition – Coming Home

Subscribe to future transmissions via iTunes and/or through the RSS, HERE. Imagery via d norsen.

(Sevens, a recurring feature on Aquarium Drunkard, pays tribute to the art of the individual song.)

It’s been noted that 1976′s “Transfiguration” is a culmination, and a sort of completion of the body of work Alice Coltrane had been building since 1967. The title track from the eponymous live album (not released until 1978) was purposely titled to mark the beginning of Coltrane’s spiritual based compositional phase where she strictly composed Hindu inspired chants and meditation music. Strong and entrancing, “Transfiguration” is perhaps most importantly a free jazz piece that contains absolutely no bells and whistles, and no Hare Krishna title or lyrics. It’s just Coltrane on piano and organ, Reggie Workman on bass and Roy Haynes on drums, giving the audience at UCLA in Los Angeles an opportunity to hear what Coltrane was naturally working with.

This subtly bold expression of the transition of Coltrane’s musical identity and composition style allows a last taste, or rather a sending off from her traditional experimental and improvisational genius, into a more transcendental compositional style. “Transfiguration” is her, leaving a satisfying musical remnant of a season of art that was never to be duplicated again, since the definition of transfiguration is complete change of form or appearance into a more beautiful or spiritual state. This one is for the enthusiasts who don’t want chocolate in their peanut butter. It’s as if she respectfully left something for the people who she knew would not spiritually ascend into the clouds with her. She knew that it was end of the road for her and some of her loyal, purist followers, and she did a brilliant job of jamming her heart out and, in the process, creating a flawless piece of work. words/ j elizabeth

MP3: Alice Coltrane :: Transfiguration – Live (1978)

Consider this a PSA. Our brother in arms, Ghost Capital, is back online with a super fresh new look. I’ll let you mosey around on your own, only to point out that the front page is presently highlighting a myriad of goods including vinyl rips of Exuma’s 1970 debut and sophomore joint, Exuma II.

‘Righteous Afro-Bahamian songwriter Macfarlane Gregory Anthony Mackey, aka Exuma, sang it with depth. At times, he comes on like a man possessed, defiantly exorcising himself. His earliest work is an unreal melange of heavy folk dirges, pounding junkanoo ruckus, and the groaning incantations of mythically just, voudoun enlivened cataclysms of spiritual and material oppressions in our brave new world. Proper chant down Babylon vibes’

MP3: Exuma :: Baäl

When it comes to the greatest twin-guitar teams from the late 70s/early 80s, you’ve got three options: the buzzsaw glory of Verlaine and Lloyd in Television; the mathematical jangle of Glenn Mercer and Bill Million in the Feelies; or the Beefheart-meets-Byrds-meets-Barrett majesty of Robyn Hitchcock and Kimberley Rew in The Soft Boys. The latter duo’s intoxicating interplay is on full display during this 1980 gig, as Hitchcock and co. blaze through tracks from their then-brand new masterpiece, Underwater Moonlight, along with other stellar selections.

During the band’s original lifespan, The Soft Boys were derided by the post-punk-drunk British media as 1960s throwbacks, but time has proven them timeless. Their records remain an absolute pleasure, combining Hitchcock’s strangely bewitching lyrics with a sparklingly psychedelic, acid-drenched guitar sound. The band may have drawn on the music of the 1960s, but they were far from mellow hippies — dig the ferocious “I Wanna Destroy You” here, or the jacked up “I Watch The Cars,” played at such a velocity to give any Ramones-worshiping punk pause, or “Black Snake Diamond Rock,” which out-Beefhearts the Captain himself. Even the Byrdsian beauty, “Queen of Eyes,” is given an extremely caffeinated reading. Word of warning: there’s a persistent buzz on this recording, mainly apparent in between songs. You’ll get over it, though — that flaw aside, it’s a fantastic listen, a trip to the Kingdom of Love you definitely want to take. words/ t wilcox

Download: The Soft Boys :: Dingwall’s, London, UK, December 7, 1980 (zipped folder)

1. City of Shame 2. Only The Stones Remain 3. Strange 4. I Wanna Destroy you 5. Queen of Eyes 6. I Watch The Cars 7. Kingdom of Love 8. Leppo and the Jooves 9. The Lizard 10. Black Snake Diamond Rock 11. Insanely Jealous 12. Astronomy Domine (Pink Floyd) 13. Underwater Moonlight

Related: Live Upload Series Archives (Television / The Feelies / Velvets)

Provenance: Long Beach, CA. 1965. Produced by Texan garage warlock Lelan Rogers. Primitive.

MP3: The Emperors :: I Want My Woman

This one’s 2am with a matte black finish. The Organizsation’s take on the traditional blues holler done up in the hands of mid-sixties young blues freaks and jazzbos. A tonic by the way of The Graham Bond Organization’s The Sound of 65.

MP3: The Graham Bond Organisation :: Early in the Morning

Our weekly two hour show on SIRIUS/XMU, channel 35, can be heard twice every Friday – Noon EST with an encore broadcast at Midnight EST.

SIRIUS 293: Jean Michel Bernard – Générique Stephane ++ The Buff Medways – Troubled Mind ++ Condo Fucks – Gudbuy T’Jane ++ Richard Swift – Drakula (Hey Man!) ++ The Blue Rondos – Baby I Go For You ++ The Skygreen Leopards – Johnny’s Theme ++ Swamp Rats – Louie Louie ++ Dead Moon – Walking On My Grave ++ The Strange Boys – A Man You’ve Never Known ++ Natural Child – The Jungle ++ Harlem – Witchgreens ++ Black Lips – Not A Problem ++ The Emperors – I Want My Woman ++ The One Way Streets – We All Love Peanut Butter ++ The Warlocks – I Love You ++ The Chocolate Watchband – It’s All Over Now Baby Blue ++ Bedlam’s Offspring – I’ll Be There ++ Michelle’s Menagerie – Stay Away ++ The Swamp Rats – I’m Going Home ++ Weekends – Want You ++ Unknown – Voodoo ++ Bob Vidone & The Rhythm Rockers – Weird ++ The Cramps – TV Set ++ Jay Reatard – Hammer I Miss You ++ Rob Jo Star Band – I Call On One’s Muse ++ Donnie & Joe Emerson – Give Me The Chance ++ The Liminanas – Je Suis Une Go-Go Girl ++ The Mad Daddy – Jet Speed Saucer Blast ++ The Velvet Underground – Lady Godiva’s Operation ++ The Shangri-Las – How Pretty Can You Get? ++ Fleur De Lys – Circles ++ Dave Davies – Creeping Jean (mono mix) ++ The Peoples Temple – More For The Masses ++ Bo Diddley – Bo Diddley ++ Charlotte Leslie – Les Filles C’est Fait ++  Jacques Dutronc – J’ai Mis Un Tigre Dans Ma Guitare ++ The Graham Bond Organisation – Hear Me Calling Your Name ++ The Shadows – Scotch On The Socks ++ The Headcoatees – Meet Jacqueline ++ The Fondettes – The Beatles Are In Town ++ Beatle-Ettes – Only Seventeen ++ The Bush – Feeling Sad And Lonely ++ Los Saicos – Come On ++ David Bowie – Janine (BBC Session) ++ Reigning Sound – I Walk By Your House ++ The Rock*A*Teens – Black Metal Scars ++ Twin Peaks – Ocean Blue

*You can listen, for free, online with the SIRIUS three day trial — just submit an email address and they will send you a password.
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